Posts Tagged ‘feathers’

Holding Space, Weaving Place a yarning stick workshop and story telling gathering at the Australian Museum
Wiradjuri Elder Aunty Gail, Wailwan and Yuin man Millmullian (Laurance Magick Dennis) and Wiradjuri/Ngemba woman Nyimirr (Fleur Magick Dennis) showed us how to wrap the yarning sticks, add feathers and seed pods then Laura McBride, an amazing young woman with two degrees who is the curator for the First Australian Galleries sat with us & spoke eloquently about oh so many things… great food for thought, I especially enjoyed her analogy of how to hold space when the going gets tough like an echidna & just wait it out… Australia’s First People are so kind & generous with their sharing of culture, we enjoyed the listening & hope to see a treaty made respecting the rights of the people of this ancient land who have lived here for 50,000 yearsHolding Space, Weaving Place is on again today and tomorrow from 1-4pm

“take time to smell the roses” Mo16
Cecil Brunner rose from one of our gardens dried in one day on the dashboard of the van, grape vine tendril, lichen, emu feather, glass & clay beads, linen and red Gütermann upholstery thread, parchment circa 1812, laser cut wood star from Els of Fiber Rainbow, Moulin de Larroque handmade watercolour paper, 5H graphite, white gouachethe bench is clean and ready for whatever wants to happen next, a gathering of fresh grape vine tendrils from one of our gardens, lichen fragments & those banksia integrifolia seeds with black boar bristles and beads from back in JanuaryPS the lichen needed to be opened up
that’s bettersometimes it’s easier to see these things through the once remove of the confuser screen…

eelskin leather feather, Italian glove leather patchwork on bookbinders mull in process for Crow Book IVCrow Book 3 is nearly fulldetail of the leather needle that Margaret Johnson gave me last year and these exquisite vintage scissors just arrived from Richard Carbin in JapanPS a few hours later , I like it better without the eelskin feather, sometimes less is more…